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Fabulous Folklore with IcyWitches in History and Superstition with Willow WinshamIn this second episode of our Witches, Cunning Folk & Magic theme, I'm talking to Willow Winsham, an author and historian specialising in folklore, and the history of the English witch trials. Her books include the highly popular Treasury of Folklore series from Batsford Books, and Accused: British Witches Throughout History from Pen and Sword Books. Her passion for uncovering fascinating topics and dedication to impeccable research guarantees an accessible and engaging read, whatever the subject.
Willow is also co-founder of #FolkloreThursday, the popular website and social media phenomenon dedicated to sharing folklore, fairytales and traditions from across...
2025-06-1448 min
Art ThrobNo. 55: DREW BARR - ANGELS IN AMERICADrew Barr has directed productions of new, modern, and classical plays and musicals for theaters across the United States and around the world. He directed the Dutch-language premiere of the National Theatre of London’s War Horse, which opened at Amsterdam’s Royal Carré Theatre before a year-long tour of the Netherlands and Belgium. For the National Theatre, he also directed the Australian premiere of War Horse, which ran in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. He was the Resident Director for War Horse on Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater. Also on Broadway, Drew served as associate director for Nicholas Hytner’s produ...
2025-05-2728 min
Culture Study PodcastThe Intoxicating Ease of Kevin Bacon's InstagramI occasionally encounter someone who asks: Who would follow a celebrity on Instagram? Lady, I WOULD. I do! I follow celebrities who I actually like and celebrities who I find weird and complicated (Gwen Stefani, hi) and celebrities I wrote about or profiled at some point in the last ten years and now know all about their workout routines (hi, Brie Larson). But I didn’t follow Kevin Bacon — until a reel of him dancing, back-lit in his barn, to “Footloose” (in celebration of the end of the Actor’s Guild Strike) took over my field. Over the weeks to come, I...
2024-03-2052 minFabulous Folklore with IcyThe Folklore of Wells: Healing, Wishing, Divining, and CursingArchaeological evidence reveals a close relationship between people and the spiritual world back to the Bronze Age, often enacted through water. Springs often reveal ritual deposits, such as those found at the head of the Seine. It’s unsurprising that humans would continue this water-based relationship via wells.
For some scholars, wells had either a patron deity or a guardian spirit, which was later replaced by a saint or angel. For example, there is a suggestion that the Celtic water goddess Alauna became St Helen.
But wells took on multiple functions, used to heal, curse, ma...
2024-03-0221 min
Thoughts from a Page PodcastJessica Bryant Klagmann - THIS IMPOSSIBLE BRIGHTNESSIn this interview, I chat with Jessica Bryant Klagmann about This Impossible Brightness, how she came up with the idea for this novel, climate change and incorporating it into the story, focusing on the idea of listening, echoes, genre mashups, and much more.Jessica's recommended reads are:
The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
The Bear by Andrew Krivak
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (editor) and Katharine K. Wilkinson (editor)
Want to know which new titles are publishing in January - May o...
2024-02-0231 min
Northern Bibliosphere36: A sneaky peek into St Duthac Book & Arts FestivalWe are back with a shiny brand new season! And because there are some excellent events ahead of us, we didn't want you to arrive unprepared to the cracking St Duthac Book & Arts Festival, which will run from next week (Monday 11) to to Monday 18.
There is a vast array of events and we delve into this year's programme as well as the birth of the festival with the lovely Coral Allan and Helen Sedgwick.
Find our more at stduthacbookfest.com and on their social channels at @stduthac!
If you have a bo...
2023-09-0932 min
Feeney Talks With FriendsEpisode #72: Feeney Talks With The West Hartford Tree Project (Bill, Ted & Helen)#BeAGoodFriend and check out episode #72 of #FeeneyTalksWithFriends featuring The West Hartford Tree Project.
It was great to sit down, talk and learn about the importance of trees with Bill, Ted and Helen.
We talked about:
Matt Conway, RiseUP Group, episode #71 (minute 1)
Helen Rubino-Turco, Director of Social and Leisure Services for the town of West Hartford (minute 3)
Ronni Newton, episode #39 (minute 4)
Reasons to have trees (minute 6)
The Seedling Project (minute 8.20)
West Hartford Tree Project on Facebook (minute 14.20)
S...
2023-04-221h 00
School Reading ListEpisode 8 - How the cost of living crisis is impacting children's reading and book salesSchool Reading List podcast hosted by Tom TolkienSeason 1: Episode 8For transcripts, links to all the books featured, resources, show notes and contact details, click here: https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/podcasts/series-1-episode-8 Part 1Book postArt and Joy Best Friends Forever by Danielle KrysaThe Way of Dog by Zana FraillonEngineers Making a DifferenceKind Crocodile by Leo Timmers by Dr. Shini SomaraI say Oh, You say No by John KaneThe Fixer of Broken Things by Julia PattonThe Bear and the Wildcat by Kazumi Yumoto and K...
2023-03-1840 min
The Make Meaning PodcastEpisode 132 – Merryn Glover – Literary Fiction about PlaceEpisode 132 – Merryn Glover – Literary Fiction about Place Merryn Glover writes literary fiction from the Scottish Highlands, deep into the Cairngorm Mountains. Her lyrical prose invokes place and relationship in gorgeous ways, her words rising from the page to attach to the reader’s heart. Born in Kathmandu and raised in Nepal, Pakistan and India, Merryn is the daughter of Australian missionaries and moved to Scotland after she met the love of her life. In the latest episode of the Make Meaning Podcast, host Lynne Golodner interviews Merryn Glover about how a sense of...
2022-12-1654 min
Fabulous Folklore with IcyFabulous Folklore Helen Nde, talking about Mythological Africans!In this seventh episode of Fabulous Folklore Presents, I chat with Helen Nde, Cameroonian-born researcher, writer and artist and curator of the Mythological Africans platform! In this interview, we chat about African folklore, the importance of mythology and storytelling, and Helen’s new Kickstarter! Find Mythological Africans on Twitter here: https://www.twitter.com/MythicAfricans Support the Kickstarter for The […]
2022-10-0900 minFabulous Folklore with IcyFabulous Folklore Helen Nde, talking about Mythological Africans!In this seventh episode of Fabulous Folklore Presents, I chat with Helen Nde, Cameroonian-born researcher, writer and artist and curator of the Mythological Africans platform!
In this interview, we chat about African folklore, the importance of mythology and storytelling, and Helen's new Kickstarter!
Find Mythological Africans on Twitter here: https://www.twitter.com/MythicAfricans
Support the Kickstarter for The Runaway Princess and Other Stories: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/helennde/the-runaway-princess-and-other-stories?ref=user_menu
Visit the Mythological Africans website: https://www.mythologicalafricans.com/
Get your free guide to home...
2022-10-0946 minFabulous Folklore with IcyFabulous Folklore Helen Nde, talking about Mythological Africans!In this seventh episode of Fabulous Folklore Presents, I chat with Helen Nde, Cameroonian-born researcher, writer and artist and curator of the Mythological Africans platform! In this interview, we chat about African folklore, the importance of mythology and storytelling, and Helen’s new Kickstarter! Find Mythological Africans on Twitter here: https://www.twitter.com/MythicAfricans Support the Kickstarter for The […]
2022-10-0900 min
Discover Top Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of AgeGinger and Me by Elissa SoavePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/570372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ginger and Me Author: Elissa Soave Narrator: Charlie Mudie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ‘Funny, touching and wise, I loved it’ Kit de Waal, bestselling author of My Name Is Leon Wendy is lonely but coping. All nineteen-year-old Wendy wants is to drive the 255 bus around Uddingston with her regulars on board, remember to buy milk when it runs out and just to be okay. After her mum...
2022-07-2205 min
Two Book Nerds TalkingTBNT Minisode 25 | July 2022 Challenge Book RecommendationsGreetings booknerds! We're back with another 30 Dirty episode to give you some book recommendations for our July #tbntbookchallenge2022. July's prompt is to read a book from a country you want to visit OR by an indigenous author. We've come up with a list of books where the setting is of places we would love to visit and there are some trip-py reads. Cheers!Books Mentioned (in order):A Castle in the Clouds by Kerstin Gier (Swiss Alps)The Green-eyed Lama by Oyungerel Tsedevdamba and Jeffrey Lester Falt (Mongolia)Kamusari Tales Told...
2022-06-2935 min
不可理论42: 停留表面 本期节目的嘉宾是許景順（twitter @cj_sheu），他目前是文学研究学者与教授。不管是否身处学院，可能都会患上刨根问底和假想敌的阅读病，治愈之道，或许是停留表面。
許老师几篇论文（更全的列表可见其Academia主页）：
Literature in the Anthropocene: A Hyperobject Reading of Twenty-First Century American Fiction
What We Talk About When We Talk About New Media: Digital Subjectivity and Tao Lin’s Taipei
An Existential Ethics for a Postmodern Age
更新：Measuring Leadership in Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow
Show notes:
日剧 Double （谈话前后我还提到韩剧《我的解放日志》，但节目中被剪掉了）
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 的文章 Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay is About You
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 文章中提出的一些概念：paranoid reading （被害妄想式的阅读）, reparative reading （修复性阅读）, strong theory（强理论） , weak theory（弱理论）
Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus 的文章 Surface Reading: An Introduction
Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus 文章中提出的一些概念：surface reading （表面阅读）, symptomatic reading（症候性阅读）, critical description（批判式描述）, mimetic relation（拟态关系）
Georges Poulet 的文章 Phenomenology of Reading
Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game （中文版：《安德的游戏》）
生态批评学者 Timothy Morton
旅德日本作家 多和田葉子：小说《献灯使》、小说《飞魂》、随笔集《和语言漫步的日子》
張惠娟《烏托邦的流變》
附录：
許老师之前课程 Readings in English Prose 所选
2022-06-241h 30
Hot Pipes Half-Hour Broadcast m4aHot Pipes Half Hour Broadcast 336 – Sugar SweetSugar Sweet
Name
Artist
Album
Year
Comments
A Spoonful Of Sugar
Zach Frame
Concert: ATOS Unconventional Convention 2021-07-09
2021
3-30 Wurlitzer, Organ Piper Pizza, Greenfield, WI
My Sugar Is So Refined
Helen Dell
Good Night Sweet Prince [Malar MAS 2025]
1978
3-26 Wurlitzer, Carson/Kearns Residence, Hollywood, CA
Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider
Everett Nourse
Farewell To The Fox [Fantasy CD]
1963
4-36 Wurlitzer, Fox Theatre, San Francisco
Sweet Georgia Brown
Don Johnson
King Of Organ With A Beat, Vol 3 [Kandy SLK-144]
1960
Hammond and combo
Sweet And Lovely
Leonard MacClain
Golden Years Of Theatre Organ [Vantage DLP-6300]
3-19 Moller, Sedgwick Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
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2021-09-0427 minFabulous Folklore with IcyEvelyn De Morgan: Myths from a Female PerspectiveVictorian artist Evelyn De Morgan presented a new perspective of many mythological women in her work. Find out which figures she re-represented in her own way in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore!
2:27 - Bio
5:41 - 'The Angel of Death'
8:08 - 'Clytie'
10:35 - 'Flora'
12:18 - 'Eos'
14:19 - 'Helen of Troy'
17:52 - 'The Love Potion'
Find the images, videos and references on the blog post: https://www.icysedgwick.com/Evelyn-De-Morgan/
Watch the video version on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/VMrd3fjEySs
2021-07-1023 min
The Best Pick movie podcastThe Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) with Ned SedgwickBest Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan, Tom Salinsky and special guest Ned Sedgwick Episode 85: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1951) Released 21 April 2021 For this episode, we watched The Bridge on the River Kwai, written by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, based on the book by Pierre Boulle. The director was David Lean and the stars were William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins and Sessue Hayakawa. From eight nominations, it won seven Oscars, including Best Director, Best Actor for Guinness and Best Adapted Screenplay. https://twitter.com/nedsedgwick GrownUpLand https://www.bbc...
2021-04-211h 39
Those Aren't PillowsEpisode 6: Top Secret! and The Edge of SeventeenIn this week's episode, host Scott J. Davis (@scottwritesfilm) and guest Helen O'Hara (@HelenLOHara) split their chat between the absurd and the touching with a classic of the 1980s and a hugely underrated gem from 2016.
First, we jump back to 1984 with the second directorial feature from ZAZ - David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, creators of Airplane! and The Naked Gun - in the form of Top Secret, a spoof of Elvis Presley movies and World War II spy films that while it didn't set the world (or box office) alight back then, has become a...
2021-03-231h 00
Open Book UnboundUnbound Episode 8: Imagine the otherwiseClaire Urquhart and Marjorie Lotfi Gill discuss the story 'Gunter' by Helen Sedgwick and the poem 'Otherwise' by Jane Kenyon in this episode.
Find out more about Open Book on our website: www.openbookreading.com/unbound
Music: Ragland. Image credit: Susan Torkington
2020-05-2330 min
GrownUpLand53. BooksReading books can open doors to other worlds and reflect the one we live in. Sophie Duker, Heidi Regan and Ned Sedgwick are joined by comedian Helen Bauer to discuss the books that have inspired them, the books they hate and the books they pretend to hate. Sophie talks-up choose your own adventure novels, Ned tells us why he wasn't allowed to join a bookclub, Heidi deconstructs unhelpful self-help books and Steve Ali dreams up potential titles for his autobiography.Co-created by Deborah Frances-White for The Spontaneity Shop and BBC Radio 4.Produced by Al Riddell.
2019-09-2646 min
The Daily GardenerAugust 9, 2019 Surprise Plants, Ludwig Winter, Walden, George Vasey, Bunny Mellon, Richard Comb Miller, David Hoffman, Black Lace Elder, Japanese Flame Tree, and San FranciscoEvery now and then, plants can surprise you. In this case I’m talking about more than just a beautiful bloom or general survival. I’m talking about variations that could lead to exciting new varieties. This topic was covered in the newspaper out of Richmond Indiana on this day in 1938. Here’s what it said: "Black Hull Wheat - the wheat that increased production by millions of bushels in the Southwest - came from just one plant discovered in his wheat field by Earl Clark in Sedgwick county, Kans. The Wayzata ever-bearing strawberry came from just one plant discovere...
2019-08-0911 min
VINTAGE BOOKSReinventing Motherhood ᛫ Helen SedgwickCheck out The Growing Season by Helen Sedgwick http://po.st/TheGrowingSeasonFollow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooksSign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletterMusic is Orbiting A Distant Planet by Quantum Jazz http://po.st/OrbitingADistant Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019-03-3120 min
Listen to Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, WomenIn Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules by Karen KarboPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules Author: Karen Karbo Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: November 27, 2018 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this witty narrative explores what we can learn from the imperfect and extraordinary legacies of twenty-nine iconic women who forged their own unique paths in the world. Smart, sassy, and unapologetically feminine, In Praise of Difficult Women is an ode...
2018-11-2703 minThe Best Pick movie podcastThe Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) with Ned SedgwickBest Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan, Tom Salinsky and special guest Ned Sedgwick Episode 85: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1951) Released 21 April 2021 For this episode, we watched The Bridge on the River Kwai, written by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, based on the book by Pierre Boulle. The director was David Lean and the stars were William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins and Sessue Hayakawa. From eight nominations, it won seven Oscars, including Best Director, Best Actor for Guinness and Best Adapted Screenplay. https://twitter.com/nedsedgwick GrownUpLand https://www.bbc...
2018-08-081h 39
Sur les épaules de DarwinExplorer"Au-dessus d’eux, les couleurs tournoient, comme la brume sur la mer. François ne bouge pas, ne pose plus aucune question. Il ne quitte pas le ciel des yeux." Helen Sedgwick, The Comet seekers
2017-12-1600 min
10,000 NOsDennis Leary, Juilliard & Everything in Between, Actor Kevin DanielsKevin Daniels is a big man who grew up in Texas where HS Football is HUGE. But he decided after one season as a youngster that the stage and screen is where he wanted to be. He found success early with a paying gig in Dallas as a teenager. And got into the incredibly prestigious Julliard School in NYC because he was "too ignorant to realize he should be nervous" for the audition. His first gig out of school was at Lincoln Center with Helen Hunt and Kyra Sedgwick. When I met him he was one of the leads...
2017-12-0856 min
HistoryworksThe Sedgwick Museum & Coprolite FossilsThis history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local schoolchildren, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by Historyworks. To find more trails and further information, go to http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/trails
The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences is the oldest Museum in Cambridge and holds the oldest items...
2017-11-2305 min
HarperAcademic CallingHelen SedgwickKim Racon calls Helen Sedgwick, author of THE COMET SEEKERS. Learn more: https://www.harperacademic.com/book/9780062448774/the-comet-seekers.
2016-10-2128 min
Access Must-Have Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaThe Comet Seekers: A Novel by Helen SedgwickPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Comet Seekers: A Novel Author: Helen Sedgwick Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 11, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors. Róisín and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote research base on...
2016-10-1105 min
Enjoy Selection of Full Audiobooks in Fiction & Literature, GeneralComet Seekers: A Novel - Helen SedgwickListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: Comet Seekers: A NovelAuthor: Helen SedgwickNarrator: Billie Fulford-BrownFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9:05:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 10-11-2016Publisher: HarperAudioGenres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore, SagasSummary:A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors.
Róisín and François are immediately drawn to...
2016-10-119h 05
Harper BooksTHE COMET SEEKERS by Helen SedgwickPerformed by Billie Fulford-Brown
About the Book
A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors.
Róisín and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica. At first glance, the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Róisín, a daughter of Ireland and a peripatetic astronomer, joins the science team to observe the fract...
2016-10-1105 min
Scots Whay Hae!SWH-2 #12: Scotland's Literary JournalsThe latest Scots Whay Hae! Podcast saw the editors of three of Scotland's finest literary magazines climb the stairs to talk to Ali about the how, whys and what next's, and their hopes and dreams, for the respective publications. They are Helen Sedgwick from Gutter Magazine, Gabriella Bennett from Valve Journal and Samuel Best from Octavius, and the talk ranged from influences, inspirations, themes, writers, readers, design, editorial decisions, live events and the importance of a mutually supportive literary community.
2013-09-1648 min